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The announcement of the engagement came late last week, but not until after this Feb. 9 tweet from @smashmouth: “What are you waiting for Sean? We’ll play at the wedding. How’s that?”

Doolittle and Dolan actually went shopping for rings in December and a week ago Monday he proposed and she accepted. But they took the time to talk things over with their families before putting the word out on social media.

By the time they did that, the @smashmouth tweet had been posted last Thursday.

“We’d had some random interactions with Smash Mouth before,” Doolittle said. “And they ended up jokingly saying, `we’ll play your wedding; what’s taking so long.’ They were egging me on, getting me to propose and we were like `how did they know?’

“We were saying if and when we put something on social media, it’s going to look like we did it because that was the final thing that made me come to my senses. We wound up putting something on social media later that day.”

And the Smash Mouth connection was born, thanks also in part from a tweet from Dolan, who wrote, “So, thanks @smashmouth I guess. Sean, I’ll see you in court. (We are getting married at the courthouse. I don’t have time to plan a wedding).”

“The internet is an amazing place,” Doolittle said.

For the record, Doolittle and Dolan don’t actually expect Smash Mouth to play, if for no other reason than most rock bands don’t play in courthouses.

Not that Doolittle will completely rule out a “Love Actually” type of surprise musical explosion at the wedding.

“Who knows between now and then what will happen?” he said. “Stranger things have happened.”